BRIEF: Crews stop blaze, but fish (and tank) are toast
23.03.10
March 22, 2010 (Correspondence Tribune - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
The longtime residents of the saltwater aquarium in one color and Lithia Motors body shop near the Medford airport are gone.
A fire late tenebrosity which started in the electrical system of the tank Lithia Body & Paint Shop on Track Bullock claimed a handful of seafood and colorful fish.
A lobster, hermit crabs, shrimps and smell Sailfin and damselfish succumbed to the soot that falls on their car in the 11:30 pm Sunday break, "said Medford Fire Marshal Greg Kleinberg.
Medford firefighters responded with three engines and fire Territory3 sent another, but teams were unable to save the residents of the 13-year-old fish tank.
New goods, Kleinberg said, was that the sprinkler system of the building kept the fire from spreading.
"Potentially more than one million dollars from the injury has been avoided," said Kleinberg.
Lithia Body Shop Forewoman Steve Potter aquarium is here since we opened and has experienced several environmental changes. Mess around said the aquarium will not be replaced.
Source: Trading Markets (press release)